The Tapestry of my Life/Last Week!!

Do you remember that old Carole King song about Tapestry?
“My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,
An everlasting vision, an ever changing view”

Sometimes my ‘Tapestry’ seems to be stuck on the spinning wheel! My ‘engine’ has been at full throttle this week and I don’t know exactly if I have moved a smidgin. Take Monday of last week; I went to Oxford to do some temp work for a doctors office that had gotten behind on their transcription. I put my headset on, clicked the pedal and started typing stopping only to go to the restroom and to eat a quick lunch. By 4:30 I had listened to 7 days of patients and had gotten them caught up. What they thought was going to take a week took me one day. Oops, I worked too fast! Is that a bad thing?

Tuesday I loaded the whale with the ad kits I would need for some of the stores that I do merchandising in. I had to make a stop at the post office and when I pulled out I realized the whale wasn’t maneuvering like it should. It was a bit mushy on the passenger side, so I drove over to True Value and got my cousin Rodney to check the tire. It had a good sized nail in it. That sidelined me for the rest of that day.

Wednesday morning I woke up and my feet hit the floor running. I had to get the work that I was supposed to do on Tuesday finished as well as do the Wednesday work also. I started out in Bruce, then Calhoun City, on to Vardaman then Houston with a jog left to Houlka and then finished my stores in Pontotoc at 7:30 that evening. I saw a lot of deer and they all saw me. Deer in the headlights is not something I like to see. Been there, done that and whacked that doe to the tune of too many dollars I didn’t want to spend. Thank the Lord for my deer whistles.

Thursday was spent cleaning house and attempting to reorganize. I have stacks of papers I need to grade, worked on my own essay for my theology course, and had a couple of meetings to attend to some pressing matters. My oldest daughter needed to go to Tupelo to get Pointe shoes for ballet so that was added to my agenda and I had a couple of little store audits to do at Barns Crossing. While she was getting fitted for the Pointe shoes I was checking out the home made fudge they offered in the shoe store. If you go to Tupelo, stop at The Corner Shoe Store and buy a block of that fudge. I rate it in the top 100 things to eat before you die. It is THAT divinely delicious. We arrived back home and just missed packing the boxes for the food pantry.

Friday found me in Caledonia doing what I fondly like to refer to as clean up. I had to go and complete the work that someone else had promised to do and then pulled a ‘George Jones’. You know what that is. They never showed up! Finding Caledonia was a trick all by itself. Map quest was pretty bizarre in its routing. It first took me down to Eupora and across at Starkville and then up at Columbus. I knew that was not right so I chose the alternative route. It was going to take me down every back country road and then some to get me there. I finally just opted for pointing my nose toward Aberdeen and watching for road signs and I did finally get there. I do want to go back that way and check out the house with the 4 huge gargoyles at their gate. There has got to be a story behind those. Can you imagine giving directions to your home and telling people to look for the four 6 foot tall gargoyles at the entrance of your drive way. Then you must slowly travel down the dark tree lined curving drive to find what? I’m telling you it was something out of a gothic novel.

Saturday was Food Pantry day and I was out there marking off names. I didn’t have to use my ice pack this time because the sun was hidden behind those rain clouds. We handed out 190 boxes in an hour! I came home to figure out what I fondly refer to as the sadistics. I really hate to figure out percentages but I have to crunch the numbers to send in to the state and the different churches that are affiliated with the pantry like to know the numbers too. By 3PM my brain was screaming for a nap and I gave in. The sofa in my living room is the perfect napping spot. I think I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.

Sunday, after church I gathered my books and papers and the girls accompanied me to Tupelo where I go and meet up with the other 19 people that are working on graduating with that Masters degree in theology next May. We worked on a paper about the Tapestry of our life. I can tell you right now, my tapestry looks like a crazy quilt. Just like the past week does. All over the place, going full speed and sometimes it seems like I’m not moving an inch!